Recently Vivendi Interactive merged with Activision and formed a new game company Activision-Blizzard. Some of the game titles are being picked up by Activision-Blizzard, mostly arcade type games. Sierra is now just a "studio" of that new company.

The list tentatively includes Caesar IV as one of the servers that will be shutdown.

Many older games will also lose their servers, this would include Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom. Other popular online games like Empire Earth and SWAT may also be losing their servers.

There is no scheduled date for this to happen as yet, or one hasn't been announced. I'm just passing along the word that I've gotten from Sierra. So don't be surprised when change finally occurs.

The old Sierra forums may be discontinued as well. Some of volunteer moderators may be moving over to help cover some of the games on the ATVI forums.

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That bit of news went down more smoothly than I thought it would. With all the posts about the servers being down time and time again, I thought the fact that they may be taken away would generate a storm of comments.

Rnett is right. C4 Online's days were numbered right from the start. It has lasted longer than I thought it would. It really does surprise me that Emperor still has a server, wonder how long since its actually hosted a game.

It now falls to the fansites like CBC to maintain competitive play for these games. Because we at CBC do this for our love of the games, rather than for economic reasons, it was always clear that we would still be running competitive C4 events long after C4 online was consigned to history.

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CBC is http://www.citybuildingcontests.netThere are generally about 2 contests running at a time for about 6 weeks each.
The current C4 contest is Labors of Herculaneum
CBC also hosts C3, Emporer, Zeus and Poseidon and COTN contests. (I'm sure I've missed some, not enough coffee yet today and very busy)
It's a great group of people and an awful lot of fun. Come join!